Hey everybody, I've got a new toon for ya! This time, SRM and Mel take on First Person Shooters, in SRM Call of Duty 4. I love FPS games, and figured it was about time I made some sort of parody.

This brings me to my next topic - the idea of making a flash game. I was thinking something along the lines of Contra, or the NES GI Joe game I so fondly remember, only with SRMs and Mels. The game would be "SRM the FPS the SSS," standing for SRM the "First Person Shooter the Side Scrolling Shooter." The idea is to have it look deliberately old school, with custom made sprites. I made a walk/shoot cycle for SRM that I attached to this message, as proof/inspiration for the idea.

Does the idea of SRM the FPS the SSS appeal to anyone? It's still in the most base of planning stages right now, but if anyone is interested in playing or helping develop it (far off as development is) please let me know through PM or replying to this bulletin.

Hope you guys enjoy the new toon, there's always more to come!

Hey everybody, I just finished moving into Boston the other day. I'm a college student now, but I had a few days off before classes started, so I decided to make a cartoon. This cartoon right here, actually:
SRM short: McBurgerBell

The idea for this toon came up when I was at a rest stop on the road down here. Lots of crappy fast food makes decent inspiration. You'll also notice it's in ludicrously wide screen format, 600x380 instead of the standard flash dimensions. This I attribute to both the nuclear rig I'm using these days and this 22" widescreen monitor. The computer itself doesn't like flash 8 too much, hopefully CS3 or whatever I upgrade to will be more compliant.

Also, A few weeks ago I released my own Metal Gear Solid flash, SRMGS: Snake Eat. It went over pretty well - no awards or anything, but a solid number of views and good ratings. The story behind it is that it was originally part of the Metal Gear collab. Well, it was intended for said collab, but didn't make the cut. Not wanting to waste my work, I polished it up a hell of a lot, and doubled the length of it.

Now, why do I think it wasn't accepted into the collab?
No cock jokes.
You heard it from me.

Anyway, flash output might slow down a bit from me for a while. I've got classes starting Tuesday, and from there on I'll have a ton of work to do. I should still be able to put some flash out, but it won't be as frequent as the last few weeks. Also, I started putting my real name on stuff. Figure it's better for copyright reasons, as I want to take my stuff further, past just the Newgrounds community, as much as I love it.

Hope you enjoy the new toonage, and keep an eye out for more stuff from me soon!

Hey everybody, I've good good news, bad news, and also bad news.
First off the good news.

I put up the third Night of the Living Spud flash, Night of the Living Spud 3
I think this is my best work to date and all that. Like all other Night of the Living Spud flashes I do, all of a dozen people saw it, and this is my desperate attempt to get someone, anyone else to see it. It just kinda bites when nobody sees your best animations, and prefer slightly overrated parodies because of their timing.

I love making parodies, whether they're of Transformers, I Am Legend, or anything else. Hell, my first animations to pass here were Sin City Parodies However, it's nice to be recognized for something that's all yours, something original. It's a well known fact that it feels good to be recognized when you put work into something, but I don't want to pander. There's some obscenely creative stuff that comes out, like Easy Way Out, that is just absolutely superb. There's good stuff out there, even on the front page, but by putting "Awesome" on something (even when you're not Egoraptor, the one guy who does it right in my opinion) it's going to usually get daily 5th or better.

So let me reiterate in something that ISN'T an unreadable wall of text. I put X amount of work into a parody that I think is decent - my GTA IV flash, for example. Toon does great, pats on the back.
Now, I put X+1 work into something I think is great - Night of the Living Spud 3, and it bombs.
Maybe I just like the idea of something being funny because it's funny in and of itself, without having to rely on spoofing the familiar.

Now that I'm ranted out and NOTLS 3 is all good and plugged (there I go again) I can get to the real news.
The Alphabet of Manliness Collab has officially been axed. There's a good number of reasons why this got canned, and it's unfortunate.

1. The deadline.
I wanted this out on July 4th, since that's a rather manly day. I gave people a solid 2 months to get the work done. You can see that it's well past that date.

2. Quality of work.
I got a few pieces that were actually rather good, but most of them were dismal at best. I wouldn't want to release a sub-par product after all, would I?
Granted that's a Clockday thing. It's meant to suck.

3. Interest, from myself and others.
Very few people signed on to begin with. Eventually, most letters were taken up, but even now, I haven't gotten many parts, or even people telling me they're not doing parts. Also, my attention got turned elsewhere, to my own animations and life outside of flash.

4. Inexperience
I have no freaking clue how to run a collab, apparently. Maybe I was just doing something wrong, but I really don't know my shit, in this case.

By their powers combined, these reasons make one failed collab. I still think it was a great idea for a collab, but it just didn't play out. Oh well, better luck next time.

For now, I'm not sure what to do. I was thinking of doing a number of parodies, but I really don't want to go around making those forever, especially Transformers ones. As much as I love Transformers, even I have my limits. After that come sequels, which I'm none too keen on at the moment either. However, I don't want to take another break, as I've got the urge to create these days. Anyway, if you have a suggestion you can always comment this or send a message my way. I probably won't take it verbatim, but if it's something better than "maek moar transfarmors" or "go fuck yourself" I'll at least listen.

Thanks for playing along,
battosai810

Hey everybody, after the wet thump that was Hitler's Strawberries on Clockday (and it's accompanying soundtrack I did as well) I decided to put out something actually worth watching, and without carrying the myriad risks of mental illness.
I give you all Night of the Living Spud 3: The Evil Jeb
This takes place after the 2nd flash in the series, NOTLS2: Spud Terror, intuitively enough.

I think to this point it is my best work, and features no commercial music! There's nothing but NG Audio portal goodness in there. I tried composing my own soundtrack, but that idea bombed. Audacity works if you're making intentionally terrible abortions called
"music," but not the real deal. Originally the toon had "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane for the opening, but I wanted to get away from that crutch. That crutch that costs money if you're trying to make it professionally.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy the cartoon. I've been up since yesterday around noon, and even then I didn't have much sleep.
And I've got company around noon... wooo boy...

Hey loyal fans who I may or may not actually have - I realized I haven't said anything or put up anything in a while.
Now that changes.
I've been working on Night of the Living Spud 3 for the 2 dozen people who saw the other 2, but also working on my dream project.
Hitler's Strawberries.

I did the cutscenes, some minor enemies, 80% of the soundtrack, and helped conceptualize it. Gamerkd16 did all the programming work, something I could never do. Finally, Superlineman came up with the original concept, designed all the levels, bosses, and tons of odd jobs here and there. Honestly, it's his project more than mine, and I probably had the least to do with the final outcome from the three of us, but hey, I did all the fluff work!

I'm going to be posting the music to the game over the week, since the Audio Portal only allows 2 submissions per day. There you can hear all that awful music I made with a microphone and Audacity.

Anyway, I'm just gonna say again how proud I am that this game got made. We had 3 months to make it, so we put it off till three days ago! And now I leave you with another link to it:
HITLER'S STRAWBERRIES!

Night of the Living Spud 3 coming soon...

Hey everyone, just thought I'd put out an update.
The Alphabet of Manliness Collab didn't quite garner as many artists as I hoped. Everything got signed up for, but only half of the collab segments got sent in. The due date was about a week ago, but not many people were on time. So I made a new deal with it - I'm taking entries for every letter people want to do, and I'm choosing the best for each. This will hopefully do a bit for quality control, as I won't be stuck with a subpar entry, granted others pitch in.

Also, I checked out the Metal Gear Solid Collab. Although my entry didn't get in (may release it on it's own later) I'm still in there as Snake in FaltaViva's segment, which is alone on NG right here.

Now, in other news, I AM working on a new SRM Transformers. The first three were all big hits, and I'm hoping I can let the series out with a bang. I said I would probably do a season two, and this is gonna be it. After that, I'll be in college, and probably won't have time to just make a ton of cartoons for the hell of it. More updates to come.

Thanks for reading and watching my cartoons everybody!

Hey everybody, my flood of things to tide you all over till my next big flash continues.
Way the hell back when (well, August 2007) I made "Night of The Living Spud," a zombie toon that was pretty good, but flawed. Anyway, I redid the flash with better sound, backgrounds, etc. and rereleased it here on Newgrounds - That can be found right the hell here

Also taking this moment to plug my collab again. The Alphabet of Manliness Collab is still looking for someone to cover "S for Sneaking a peek," and is slowly coming together. Keep at it people.
PS: could have really just used NOTLS as the "Z for Zombies" segment...
PSS: Graduation in 5 days! Huzzah!

EDIT: Good god it's doing terrible... Worse score than the original. Dunno how that's possible. Wrong crowd I suppose.

Hey everybody, I realized I hadn't posted anything here in over 2 months. After working on 3 collabs and a game, I figured I needed to put something new out there.
I worked on a Metal Gear collab, but I'm pretty positive I got turned down for it. My Manliness collab is coming along, but P for Pirates and S for Sneaking a Peek, that can be found here

Now I present you all with what was originally meant to be for a GTA collab. It ended up being too big to send (and megaupload doesn't work) so I decided to release it as it's own flash. That's right here

Well, I've been trying to get authors together for this Alphabet of Manliness collaboration, but the thread is pretty slow - I figured "why not hope some authors see it here?"
Here's the list of letters and who has taken them - expect the list to be updated as more people sign on.
A - Ass kicking (MADpuppet)
B - Boners (idiot-monarch)
C - Copping a feel (MADpuppet
D - Taking a Dump (Jamboreen)
E - Enlightenment (MADpuppet)
F - Female Wrestling (tooters)
G - Gas (MADSOFT)
H - Hot Sauce (MrBallistic)
I - Irate (xander1062)
J - Jerky, beef (battosai810)
K - Knockers (MADpuppet)
L - Lumberjacks (MADpuppet)
M - Metal (xander1062)
N - Norris, Chuck (RighteousFlare)
O - Obedience (r1dd1m)
P - Pirates (Art-Saint)
Q - Quickies (LordOfKetchup)
R - Road Rage (FaltaViva)
S - Sneaking a Peek
T - Taunting (Supapeeves)
U - Urinal Etiquette (Simple-line)
V - Violence (Superlineman01)
W - Winner (Simple-line)
X - XXX (MADpuppet)
Y - Yelling (Superlineman01)
Z - Zombies (battosai810)

Each segment will be 5 seconds long (no less than 5 seconds, but under 6) and will be set to the song "Now You're a Man" by DVDA (was used in the Trey Parker movie Orgazmo - Youtube vid with the song)
I'm aiming to have the content be funny, and of course with topics like XXX porn and violence, this is gonna be more adult oriented, so feel free to let loose with blood and tits.
So here's the specs:

5 seconds maximum (slightly longer but under 6 is alright, shorter isn't an issue)
Standard size
16fps
Author's name and their letter/definition (ex: J is for Jerky, Beef)
Send a short bio to MADSOFT if you want that info in the flash.

The only real criteria is for submissions to be of decent quality, reflecting at least marginal effort. The projected due date is for late June or early July, not totally concrete yet, but should give you people time to make some decent submissions for it.
Link to topic on BBS

email submissions in .fla form to me at battosai810@yahoo.com and make sure they're in MOVIE CLIPS TAKING UP A SINGLE FRAME - and feel free to PM me with any questions! Good luck!

I don't post here often, so bear with me.
I want to create a new collab based on Maddox's Alphabet of Manliness, one of the most ball-stompingly good books ever written.
Of course, there's 26 letters in it, and I'm hoping to make a collab with different authors doing each one.
A - Ass kicking
B - Boners
C - Copping a feel
D - Taking a Dump (Jamboreen)
E - Enlightenment
F - Female Wrestling (tooters)
G - Gas (MADSOFT)
H - Hot Sauce (MrBallistic)
I - Irate
J - Jerky, beef (battosai810)
K - Knockers
L - Lumberjacks
M - Metal (xander1062)
N - Norris, Chuck (RighteousFlare)
O - Obedience
P - Pirates (CiDiC)
Q - Quickies (LordOfKetchup)
R - Road Rage (FaltaViva)
S - Sneaking a Peek
T - Taunting
U - Urinal Etiquette
V - Violence (Superlineman01)
W - Winner
X - XXX
Y - Yelling (Superlineman01)
Z - Zombies (battosai810)

Each segment will be 5 seconds long (no less than 5 seconds, but under 6) and will be set to the song "Now You're a Man" by DVDA (was used in the Trey Parker movie Orgazmo - Youtube vid with the song)
I'm aiming to have the content be funny, and of course with topics like XXX porn and violence, this is gonna be more adult oriented, so feel free to let loose with blood and tits.
So here's the specs:

5 seconds (slightly longer but under 6 is alright)
Standard size
16fps
Author's name and their letter/definition (ex: J is for Jerky, Beef)
Send a short bio to MADSOFT if you want that info in the flash.

If you're interested, reply in this thread with what letter(s) you would like to do. The only real criteria is for submissions to be of decent quality, reflecting at least marginal effort. Not looking for Swain quality stuff here (awesome as that would be) but I don't want to see any lousy stick movie done by someone in Windows movie maker. The projected due date is for late June or early July, not totally concrete yet, but should give you people time to make some decent submissions for it.
Link to topic on BBS

email submissions in .fla form to me at battosai810@yahoo.com and make sure they're in MOVIE CLIPS TAKING UP A SINGLE FRAME - and feel free to PM me with any questions! Good luck!